June 15th E-NEWSLETTER

Programs

Visit WRI at the Wenatchee Pride Festival

Saturday, June 18th

11:00AM-7:00PM

Memorial Park, Wenatchee

Wenatchee Pride is Coming Back Out on June 18th! The festival will include live music, entertainment, activities for all ages, vendors, food trucks, and a beer garden! Visit WRI's booth as you celebrate Pride!

Celebrate Here

Moths:

Welcome to the Night

Thursday, June 30th

8:30PM-11:00PM

Join WRI and David Droppers to learn about moths. Introducing yourself to moths means an introduction to the night and all the interactions that are hidden from us! See how dazzling moths can really be.

Observe Moths Here

Scouting for Butterflies

Friday, July 1st

9:00AM-2:00PM

Join WRI and lepidopterist, David Droppers for a trek through trails on Mountain Home Road in search of summer butterflies! You'll get to observe many species of butterflies up close by using catch-and-release methods.

Scout Here

Traditional Indigenous Basket Weaving Workshop

Saturday, July 9th AND/OR Sunday, July 10th

10:00AM-3:00PM

Join WRI, p'squosa (Wenatchi) band members, Bernadine Phillips and Julie Edwards, and Sinixt band member, Brandon Finley to learn the traditional practice of basket weaving! Each day will focus on one type of basket. You can register for both days or just one.

Weave Here

More Summer Camp Offerings!

We have added two more camps to our summer camp calendar! Both new camps are for campers entering grades 1-3.

Naturalist Camp: June 27-30

Forest Friends Camp: July 18-22

After School Program

Throughout the school year, WRI youth education staff have traveled to Wenatchee to lead activities at the After School Programs at Lincoln, Lewis & Clark, and Mission View Elementary Schools. Educators led students in many different games, nature walks, design and engineer activities, and much more. WRI did a total of 41 After School Program visits this year. Thank you for supporting WRI's traveling programs!

Last Field Days Before Summer!

As summer camps will be gearing up at the end of the month, WRI is rounding out the school year with more Field Days!

Third graders from Vale Elementary School in Cashmere visited the WRI campus to spend a day learning all about birds. In the "What's that Bird?" activity, students learned how to use binoculars and then practiced using binoculars to spot wooden birds. They also learned about arthropods, an important food source for birds, and searched for arthropods around the Community Garden. Classes also looked at real bird skins to learn about field marks and listened to and practiced bird calls.

Thank you to those who have volunteered for Youth Programs in the last two weeks: Tim Abel, Beth Beck, and Tara deArrieta.

Want to volunteer for Youth Programs?

Click here to view upcoming opportunities.

Place

NEW Self-Guided Art Walk and Audio Tour

Have you ever wanted to learn more about the art on the WRI campus or hear from the artists themselves? Now you can! Icicle Tours has created a self-guided art walk at WRI than can be listened to on your phone as you walk our campus.

This self-guided art walk is an audio tour that is 45 minutes long and will take you on a 0.5 mile walk around the WRI campus. The tour costs $4.99. Thanks to Icicle Tours for organizing this great self-guided program!

Listen Here

Dan Nanamkin - Photo by Shane Moses, Tribal Tribune

2021-2022 Red Barn Events Reflection

Thank you to all who attended and were involved with the 2021-2022 Red Barn Event season! Typically, Red Barn Events run from September to May. This season had many record-breakers, including an event that brought 150 people to learn about the film, The Approach in December. We had two other Red Barn Events that surpassed 100 people as well!

The topics discussed were diverse, anything from skiing, to storytelling, to composting, to updates from the county, to insect agriculture! Since the first Red Barn Event of the season in July to the last one of the season in May, we've had 925 people attend our Red Barn Events (in person and virtually). That's a lot of people learning and connecting with the natural world!

In 2022, WRI began working to make our Red Barn Events hybrid to make these events more accessible to everyone no matter their comfort level or location. In March, Red Barn Events were finally able to go hybrid. In case you missed some of our Red Barn Events since mid-March, you can find recordings of the presentations on our YouTube channel.

Keep your eye out for Red Barn Events starting back up this fall! If you have ideas for topics, you can submit them here.

The History of Climbing with Jim Phillips

Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home by Lynda V. Mapes

We also want to take another moment to thank our wonderful Red Barn Event Sponsors! Please help us show our gratitude by supporting their business or even learning more about them by visiting their websites. Financial support from our local businesses and organizations make these events possible!